The Underground City, Montreal Metro & Winter Culture

The Montreal underground city (RÉSO — the world's largest underground pedestrian network, connecting 33 km of tunnels with 60+ building complexes, 2,000 shops, 200 restaurants, and 10 metro stations in downtown Montreal) and the Montreal metro (the Montréal Métro — the rubber-tired rapid transit system opened 1966, whose 68 stations are each individually designed by a different architect, making the metro the largest collection of commissioned public art in Canada) define how Montrealers navigate their city during the brutal Quebec winter (the average January temperature in Montreal is -10°C (14°F), with average snowfall of approximately 235 cm (92 inches) per year).